Following an abrupt end to hotel stays for unhoused residents, the group of volunteers supporting people living in a municipal park is calling on the municipality to publicly declare a moratorium on tent and shelter evictions from municipal parks. A month ago this weekend, Halifax Regional Police and city staff evicted people living in tents […]
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Halifax Convention Centre deficit grows again
The convention centre’s COVID-19 deficit is getting deeper. In year-end financial statements released on Thursday, Events East, the Crown corporation that runs the Halifax Convention Centre, reported that it lost $11,295,905 in fiscal 2020-2021. That’s about $200,000 more than forecast in Events East’s 2020-2021 budget, released months late in November 2020. The convention centre was...
Audit finds Halifax Fire’s building inspection program doesn’t pass the test
Halifax Regional Fire and Emergency’s inspection program doesn’t hold up to scrutiny, and according to the city’s auditor general, the fire department has no documented plan to fix it. Auditor general Evangeline Colman-Sadd and audit lead Ashley Maxwell presented their Management of Fire Inspection Program Audit to a virtual meeting of regional council’s Audit and...
Halifax council approves Cogswell contract, boot bylaw, discusses campaign finance breaches
The Cogswell interchange’s days are numbered after a regional council vote on Tuesday. The process to tear down the aging series of overpasses is tentatively scheduled to start in January, with Dexter Construction getting the $95.7-million contract to bring out the wrecking ball and then realign the street grid. As the Halifax Examiner reported last...
New road design guidelines for Halifax pass first reading despite concerns they’re still too wide and too fast
Agreeing they were better than the status quo, Halifax regional councillors voted in favour of a set of new road design guidelines despite some concerns about the specifics. Municipal staff presented long-awaited revisions to the Municipal Design Guidelines, generally referred to as the Red Book, to council’s committee of the whole on Tuesday. The guidelines...
Cogswell redevelopment expected to start in January as contract heads to Halifax regional council
After years of delays, the crumbling concrete overpasses of the Cogswell Interchange are now expected to fall this winter. That’s one takeaway from a staff report headed to Halifax regional council on Tuesday recommending in favour of increasing the budget for the Cogswell redevelopment project and awarding the tender to build to Dexter Construction for...
Halifax committee faces existential crisis as it rubber stamps development for former Mills Brothers site
It was all but a done deal, with construction on the site well underway, but the developers replacing the Mills Brothers building on Spring Garden got the official rubber stamp on Thursday. The city’s Design Review Committee, which approves development proposals in downtown Halifax, met virtually to consider the application for the block along Spring...
Officer’s lawyer says Corey Rogers ‘had a part to play’ in his death in police custody
Nova Scotia Police Review Board hears closing arguments on Rogers' 2016 death in Halifax police cells.
Corey Rogers was either in need of medical attention or being purposely uncooperative the night he died in police custody, the Nova Scotia Police Review Board heard on Wednesday. Rogers, 41, was arrested for public intoxication outside the IWK Health Centre in Halifax following the birth of his child in June 2016. Three Halifax Regional […]
Halifax councillors approve two big Robie Street developments, 30 and 23 storeys
Halifax councillors green-lit two developments for Robie Street Tuesday night, approving up to 679 residential units. The Halifax and West Community Council, comprising councillors from districts 7 through 12, held two virtual public hearings. First was for the corner of Robie and College streets. Zzap Consulting applied on behalf of Peter and Argyris Rouvalis’ 3088962...
Halifax releases 2021 sunshine list: Of more than 1,000 employees making more than $100,000, 454 are police
Halifax Regional Municipality has released its 2021 sunshine list, showing 1,065 employees made more than $100,000 in the last fiscal year, and more than 40% of them work for the police force. The municipality has released the list annually since 2016, and the 2021 edition was posted online on Thursday, with HRM alerting citizens to […]
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